July 25 - Qantas ground handling staff vote for a protected-action ballot after the airline's management knocked back key claims in negotiations over their workplace agreement

July 29 - Qantas warehouse workers walk off the job over the airline's push towards the casualisation of the workforce. The airline stands down a pilot and an engineer after they threaten to go on strike.

August 4 - Cleaners at Melbourne Airport threaten to go on strike unless they get a pay rise

August 16 - Qantas says it will make dramatic changes to its international business in a process that will affect 1,000 jobs. Unions consider industrial action

August 19 - Qantas engineers say they will stop work for one hour every weekday from August 25 until the week before Christmas

August 24 - Qantas more than doubles its full year net profit to $250 million

August 25 - Qantas engineers start work at Sydney Airport an hour late.

August 31 - Qantas long-haul pilots meet to talk over their pay and conditions dispute

September 5 - Forty engineers in Brisbane strike

September 7 - Qantas annual report released, showing Alan Joyce got $2.2 million in shares in 2010/11, lifting his total remuneration to $5.1 million

September 20 - More than 4000 ground staff strike over pay and conditions

September 30 - Baggage handlers and ground staff walk off the job, with 39 flights delayed by up to an hour and two flights cancelled. TWU flags another nationwide stoppage

October 5 - Reports emerge that Alan Joyce and other senior executives have received death threats. Mr Joyce calls for calm in negotiations

October 7 - Baggage handlers and ground staff call off a nationwide strike but passengers still face delays because flights were cancelled

October 10 - Engineers cancel industrial action after management threatens to dock them a day's pay, but flag more strikes leading up to Christmas

October 13 - Qantas says it will ground five aircraft and cut up to 100 domestic flights a week. The federal government threatens to intervene

October 14 - Prime Minister Julia Gillard says Qantas and unions should negotiate or the government will step in. Jetstar check-in staff refuse to charge for excess baggage for 24 hours. Engineers cancel all industrial action for two weeks

October 15 - Qantas says it will cancel 400 domestic flights over the next month

October 16 - Qantas denies a union claim that it is walking away from negotiations with pilots

October 18 - Qantas says it will ground another two aircraft and cancel a further 80 domestic flights.

October 20 - The engineers say they are now hopeful of reaching a deal and call off all protected industrial action for three weeks, in a challenge to the airline to resume its full flight schedule

October 28 - Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce apologises to the 10,000 passengers delayed by strikes. He gets a $5 million salary package at the annual general meeting, where he says the strikes have cost Qantas $68 million

October 29 - Qantas grounds its international and domestic flights and says it will lock out workers from Monday.

Fair Work Australia holds a late night hearing in Melbourne

October 30 - Fair work hearing resumes

October 31 - Fair Work Australia grants a full termination of the protected industrial action against Qantas. Planes begin flying again